Truck



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TRUCK.

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BENJAMIN B. MERRILL AND JAMES ARTHUR W'ING, OF LITTLETON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,192, dated December 28, 1886. A

Application filed November 1, 1886. Serial No. 217,672. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, BENJAMIN B. MER- RILL and JAMES ARTHUR WVING, of Littleton, in the county of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trucks for the Transportation of Merchandise or other Matters; and we do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying draw- Figure 1 is a top View, Fig. 2 a median and longitudinal section, Fig. 3 a side view,

' longer edges.

and Fig. 4 an under side or bottom view, of a truck containing our invention. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of it,taken through the axle of the forward pair of wheels.

The nature of our said invention is duly defined in the claims hereinafter presented. In such drawings, A denotes the platform of the truck, it having side or wheel guards, a a, projecting down from it at its opposite Two handles, B B, connected by cross bars or rods a b, are hinged to two continuations or bars, 0 O, that are inclined, as represented, to the guards a a, and fixed to them by tenons c, inserted in mortises d in the bars 0 O, and by screws e, going through each tenon and the bar 0 thereon. The hinges d are on the front sides of the handles and bars, there being on the rear side of each handle an eye, f, to engage with ahook, g, pivoted on the bar, such hook and eye being to hold the handle in line with the inclined bar. "When the hooks are disengaged from the eyes, the handles may be turned down upon the platform, as indicated by dotted linesin Fig. 2, such being to enable the truck to be reduced for convenience of package or transis pivoted upon the axle.

Between the two brakes, and connected to them, are a pair of toggles, I, which incline downward at an obtuse angle to each other, and at their junction are jointed to the inner end of a lever, K, extending along underneath the middle of the platform, and fulcrum'ed to a projection or bracket, 70, therefrom, such lever at its rear end being connected with or jointed to a lifter-rod, M, in such manner as to admit of the handles, with the lifter-rod applied to their connect- .ing-bars, being'turned down upon the platform into position, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The said lifterrod or handle goes through a staple or guide, n, projecting from the connection-rod b, there being to the upper part of the lifter shoulders 19 and q, for it to catch upon the rod a when the lifter is either at its highest or lowest position. By forcing the lifter downward the brakes will be pressed against-the wheels, and may be locked in position by such lifter. On pulling the lifter upward the brakes may be thrown off the wheels and locked in position. I

The object of having the brakes to the wheels is to prevent the truck from moving while being laden, or to hold it still on an inclined way or upon an elevator while thelatter may bein movement.

By having the wheels between the guards such wheels are covered,so as to be prevented from contact with or catching any part of aload on the platform.

\Ve do not claim the combination, with a truck, of brakes applied to its wheels and having mechanism for forcing such brakes against the wheels, and,also,other mechanism for preventing one of the handles from being moved inwardly while the truck is being lifted by its handles, such being to keep the brakes out of action on the wheels, all being as represented in the United States Patent No. 233,292, as we have no such mechanism; but, in combination I with the brake-actuating mechanism, we have means of locking the brakes to keep them in action on the wheels. Nor do we claim a truck thehandleshinged to continnations or separate turned down upon the platform, as occasion I 5 pieces fastened to the sides or Wheel-guards. may require. We claim 3. The combination, with the truck-platform 1. The truck provided with the brakes arand its handles and their connection-rods and 5 ranged between its forward wheels, and havwith the wheels and their axles, of the brakes ing mechanism, essentially as described, for applied to the axles and wheels, and of the tog- 20 operating and locking them, (the said brakes,) gles,their operative lever, and the lifter thereof as set forth, relatively to the wheels. having shoulders, as set forth, all being sub- 2. The combination, withthetruck-platform stantially as represented. 10 andits wheel-guards, of handles and their oon- BENJAMIN B. MERRILL. tinuations, hinged together and provided with JAMES ARTHUR WING. hooks and eyes, as set forth, the handle con- Witnesses: tinuations being fastened to the guards, and R. ILEDDY, the whole being to admit of the handles being R. B. TORREY. 

